Solomon sent this message to Hiram[a](A) king of Tyre:

“Send me cedar logs(B) as you did for my father David when you sent him cedar to build a palace to live in.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:3 Hebrew Huram, a variant of Hiram; also in verses 11 and 12

10 I will give your servants, the woodsmen who cut the timber, twenty thousand cors[a] of ground wheat, twenty thousand cors[b] of barley, twenty thousand baths[c] of wine and twenty thousand baths of olive oil.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,600 tons or about 3,200 metric tons of wheat
  2. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, probably about 3,000 tons or about 2,700 metric tons of barley
  3. 2 Chronicles 2:10 That is, about 120,000 gallons or about 440,000 liters

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